Public Notices and Documents for Review

The San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board (Water Board) requests public comments on many types of draft documents: Basin Plan amendments, adoption of TMDLs (Total Maximum Daily Loads), NPDES permits, Waste Discharge Requirements, Site Cleanup Requirements, Enforcement Orders, California Environmental Quality Act documents and more. This page contains links to public notices for projects currently in a public comment period. In addition, you will find links to pages containing support materials (fact sheets, regulation text, etc.) below the public notices.

You may also visit the Water Board Meeting Calendar for information about comment periods, public hearings and meetings.

Decisions

Laws and Regulations Relevant to Current Public Proceedings

How to Participate

Board Meetings

Calendar, Agendas and Minutes of Board Meetings

Basin Planning and TMDLs

There are currently no Basin Planning Public Notices

Agriculture

There are currently no Agricultural Public Notices

NPDES

For public notices and draft documents for review on NPDES related matter, please see Proposed (Tentative) Orders for Consideration by the Board.

Site Cleanup

There are currently no Site Cleanup Notices

Section 401 Water Quality Certification

On June 7, 2013 the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board received an application from the California Department of Transportation requesting Federal Clean Water Act (CWA) Section 401 Water Quality Certification for the Highway 1 San Pedro Creek Bridge Replacement and Creek Widening Project in the City of Pacifica, San Mateo County. The project will remove the existing Highway 1 bridge over San Pedro Creek and replace it with a longer and wider bridge which meets current structural standards. The bridge will be raised and the creek channel will be widened to increase hydraulic capacity. Refer to the 401 Application link below for additional information on the project. Please contact Derek Beauduy at 510-622-2348, or via email at dbeauduy@waterboards.ca.gov, if you have questions or comments. Comments on the project and/or application must be submitted no later than July 10, 2013.

401 Application (158MB)

San Francisco Bay Regional Water Board staff is considering reissuing Waste Discharge Requirements and 401 Water Quality Certification to the US Army Corps of Engineers to continue periodic maintenance dredging of the federal navigational channels in San Francisco Bay. The Water Board is also acting as the CEQA lead agency for the preparation of an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for this activity. A Notice of Preparation was released for public review and comment on February 25, 2013, and a CEQA scoping meeting was held in Oakland on March 12, 2013. We expect the Draft EIR to be released for public review and comment by the fall of 2013.

Notice of Preparation

If you have any questions, please contact Elizabeth Christian, project manager, at (510) 622-2335.

Urban Stormwater

A Revision for the Municipal Regional Stormwater Permit is Now Available Here.